The Tenth Generation
Subtitle: The Origins of the Biblical Tradition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: July 1, 1974
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780801816543
Subjects: Biblical studies, criticism & exegesis; Old Testament; Reference works; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament; Biblical Studies - Old Testament; Reference; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Bible - Criticism  Interpretation - Old Testament
First sentence: Quite consciously, the guiding hypothesis has been chosen that early Israel until the establishment of the Monarchy actually constituted the sovereignty of Yahweh as the functional system that enabled it to exist at all as a distinct social group.